Sergey Khachatryan
Sergei Khachatryan (Armenian Սերգեյ Խաչատրյան / Sergei Chač'atrjan, born April 5, 1985 in Yerevan ) is an Armenian violinist.
Life
Sergei Khachatryan was born in 1985 as a family of musicians in the Armenian capital, Yerevan, and has lived in Germany since 1993. At six years old he received his first violin lessons at Petros Haykazyan in Armenia, then he studied with Grigori Schislin in Würzburg and in 1996 he was a student of Josef Rissin at the Karlsruhe University of Music. As a nine year old Sergei Khachatryan was the Kurhaus in Wiesbaden his first concert with orchestra. Two years later, in Marignane, France, his chamber music debut. Meanwhile, he had worldwide appearances with major orchestras. In many of his appearances Sergei Khachatryan is accompanied by his sister Lusine Khachatryan, who also already pursuing an international career.
Artistic career
After his British concert debut with the English Chamber Orchestra, he has performed in the UK already with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the London Philharmonia. He was also with the Portuguese Gulbenkian Orchestra and the Berlin Symphonic Orchestra Günther Herbig, the Radio Symphony Orchestra Frankfurt under Hugh Wolff, Eiji Que and Daniel Harding, the Symphony Orchestra of the Finnish Radio Orchestra under Jukka -Pekka Saraste, Mikko Franck and Tugan Sokhiev, the Frankfurt Museum Orchestra under Sian Edwards, the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Joseph Swensen, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra under Vladimir Fedosseyev, Orchestre National de France, London Philharmonic Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic under Kurt Masur, the Concertgebouw Orchestra under Manfred Honeck, BBC Manchester to hear the mother under Vasily and Gianandrea Noseda Sinajski, the Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Roberto Abbado, Kurt Masur and Yahya Ling, the Munich Chamber Orchestra with Anne Sophie.
His concert career took him to concert halls such as the Alte Oper ( Frankfurt / Main), Symphony Hall (Birmingham), Barbican Hall, Wigmore Hall, Royal Festival Hall and Albert Hall (London), Châtelet Théâtre Théâtre des Champs-Elysees, Louvre Museum (Paris ), Schauspielhaus (Berlin), Festival Hall (Baden- Baden), Suntory Hall and Orchard Hall ( Tokyo), Mozarteum (Salzburg), Konzerthaus and Musikverein (Vienna), Great Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory (Moscow), Concertgebouw (Amsterdam ), La Scala ( Milan ), Albert Fisher Hall ( Lincoln Center, New York).
In October 2002, his first album was released by EMI Classics, in October 2003 the second CD was released by Naïve. Currently, Khachatryan scholarship from the Anne -Sophie Mutter Foundation. Sergei Khachatryan plays a violin by JB Guadagnini from the 18th century, which made him the country's collection of Baden- Württemberg. It was made available in 2005 by the Nippon Music Foundation as a winner of the Concours Reine Elisabeth Musical a ' Huggins' Stradivarius 1708, for four years. Meanwhile, he plays according to your own Web page, the ' Ysaye ' Guarneri del Gesu of 1740, also belonging to the Nippon Music Foundation.
Honors, awards
In 2000, he won the second prize of Fritz Kreisler Competition in Vienna and the first prize at the Louis Spohr Competition in Freiburg and at the International Violin Competition Jean Sibelius in Helsinki, he decided at the age of 15 years as the youngest participant of all time for themselves. He also received a special prize for the best interpretation of the Violin Concerto by Sibelius. In 2002, won the second prize in the Khachatryan J. Gingold competition in Indianapolis. In 2003 he received a grant from the Bremer Musikfest. To top it off, he won the 2005 prestigious Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition in Brussels.